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"This was something that was obsessing me and creating a writer's block. To get involved and get stuck in, get the proper information about what's going on has really helped."
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"Perfect truth (symmetry) is information that doesn't change and pure randomness is a difference that doesn't make a difference."

"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."

"When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation."

"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."

"I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about."

"Disinformation is duping. Misinformation is tricking."

"I have never refused to talk to any authorities or give them any information I had."

"On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us."

"Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information."

"Because the New Testament provides the primary historical source for information on the resurrection, many critics during the 19th century attacked the reliability of these biblical documents."
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"My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art."


"I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music."


"I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out."


"I think we're entering a very dangerous time. The West has set itself up, decided it's in charge, not for good intentions, not for the benefit of mankind."


"Music is more difficult - try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political."


"I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests."


"We toyed with the idea of making it a double album, but I think that would only have confused everybody even more, so we decided to stick with the songs we picked."


"I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music."


"My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that's just the way it is."


"I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I'd be confronted by the radio giving a news report every hour of the day."
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